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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  , there's just a late fee. Want to know how much it is? Better consult your ... is to pay to sit for four hours on a bus (more on that to come). I ... home (MIT, that is; home would've been 10 minutes further in a different

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... is a weekend? I need coffee. I never drank coffee before this ... home. I had not been back since June, and I didn't know how much I missed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a ... a broader audience. Holland is beautiful! I rented an AirBnB in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really ... language is key here - powerful verbs, that perfect adjective, maybe a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  is worth two and a half hours of waiting) a colorful look at Dylan ... Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam): a run around Central Park a walk way down 5th Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  my social life, despite being in a pandemic. I traveled so much this ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  voice, and sing, elegiac, to the open air. There is always a storm just past. There is always a storm to come. I am ready. The deepest ... add, maybe this is how it is. maybe it is not possible for anyone to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is ... -deprived and thesising (now a verb). (The thing she's holding is the second ... a real meal in days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  the SMASH board as a representative from the MedLinks executive board. MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... SMASH, did a fantastic job. And, as always, here is a picture of Rory

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start ... the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  , there is a well-documented psychological phenomenon called impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome, says Wikipedia, is "a psychological phenomenon ... thread on a forum I frequent is subtitled "Everyone Else Feels Like An

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... this one tree with a tire swing hung from it. There’s so much to love

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a ... you ever had that feeling where you have so much going through your head ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... my reservations—I thought it was bad form for them to ask me how much I ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  friends on Burton Third is a reminder of how lucky I am to live with such a ... us lmao"]quite a reputation.[/annotation] BC is known for its floors ... to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  the time you notice a problem, it is often too late to begin acting to address the problem. this is because the problem’s effects might be a very late signal for the problem’s emergence. in many cases it is such a late

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has ... with just bread. I cannot express how much I love bread; it brings me deep satisfaction like no other [annotation note=" yes bread is a meal

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... year, there were 50 mentors, which is a lot to coordinate). Also, because

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write ... flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019